Why is jumping always associated with WoW?

[SunZhi]

I knew that was the angry german kid before even clicking it lol.

This kid does approve of jumping...

[Preypacer]

What I want to know is why some people find jumping so offensive lol. Its like "Did... Did that guy just jump? Did that guy just...jump? WHAT THE $%&*!!!! %&*-!!!!!!!! %&*%&*&$&!!!!!!!! *censor censor* */blist add jumping offendor*" lol I just picture these people screaming at their screens... xD!!!!

I don't think anyone is "offended" by jumping by itself.

People have already explained specifically in this thread what type of jumping becomes annoying, as is common in WoW, is when there are people who are spamming their jump buttons like rabbits on speed simply because they can't sit still for a second or are trying to get attention.

It's annoying when you're standing still trying to talk to someone, or going through inventory, and someone is jumping around you in circles non-stop purely to get your attention.

It's annoying when you're in the middle of a tough quest or dungeon where aggro could mean death and some guy with a twitchy jump finger is hopping all over the damn place.

And then of course, there's when you get a bunch of chronic hoppers in one place, they see one person do it, so they join in... next thing you know it's Bouncy Castle time...

The remark at about 1:50 in this video kinda sums it up well... and humorously.

I have no issue with a jump key being in the game. I don't think one is necessary, but I'm not opposed or "offended" to it being there. It's more what will happen when hyper-active people who can't sit still get access to it that I'm concerned about.

I seriously hope SE puts limitations in place that prevents people from spamming it.

[Razzle]

It's annoying when you're standing still trying to talk to someone, or going through inventory, and someone is jumping around you in circles non-stop purely to get your attention.

It's annoying when you're in the middle of a tough quest or dungeon where aggro could mean death and some guy with a twitchy jump finger is hopping all over the damn place.

And then of course, there's when you get a bunch of chronic hoppers in one place, they see one person do it, so they join in... next thing you know it's Bouncy Castle time...

Can you please explain how is it so annoying to you?

How does it affect you or other players in any way if someone is spamming the jump button?

It's annoying when you're standing still trying to talk to someone, or going through inventory, and someone is running around you in circles non-stop purely to get your attention.

It's annoying when you're in the middle of a tough quest or dungeon where aggro could mean death and some guy with a twitchy finger is running all over the damn place.

And then of course, there's when you get a bunch of chronic runners in one place, they see one person do it, so they join in... next thing you know it's Running Castle time...

See what I did there? Why not remove Running from the game while we're at it?

If such thing annoy you maybe its a problem in your end... Other players jumping does not affect you or anyone else. If you have such a big problem seeing it in your screen tilt your camera away or something.

[Jaide]

Maybe because wow is the best example of the jump feature gone wrong? I played eq for years and never remember anyone trying to grief me by leapfrogging over or around me repeatedly. Its not the feature itself, but rather if the playerbase is mature enough to use it properly. Apparently in wow they are not.

[Raistlin]

jump is really hard to animate, they can animate it decently and cool, but for that, lalafell need to jump much less than Roegadyn... and that would violate any kind of equality between races.

So they have to do it in a way all races jumps same height.. and that will be HARD to be cool animated

[Tezz_Xivectro]

From now on we will refer to Jumping based on Dark Age of Camelot (DAoC) seeing as that's the MMO Yoshi is most familiar with.

[Wolfie]

Why forum goers? Why?

Did blizzard invent jump with the creation of WoW?

I don't understand .

Because anything that WOW has is bad, and it's the first MMO to invent bad things.

World of Warcraft has a really stupid jump animation, and it seems like the majority of the population there can't help but spam it nonstop.

I thought emote, call, spell, and song spamming to be much, much more annoying in FFXI. People will always figure something out to do when they're bored.

Still don't understand why jump spamming is so bad, but to each his own.

[Reika]

I kinda hated call too. They were useful to wake someone up who fell asleep because the extremely slow combat system (me), but not for too much else. I know some people who want those calls in FFXIV. They better not be the ones complaining about jump being anoying tho >.>

[Dreamer]

jump is really hard to animate, they can animate it decently and cool, but for that, lalafell need to jump much less than Roegadyn... and that would violate any kind of equality between races.

So they have to do it in a way all races jumps same height.. and that will be HARD to be cool animated

I'm actually all for there being actual differences between the different races. Perhaps if there were some actual benefits and drawbacks to the choices, we wouldn't have the legion of catgirls running around.

No one complaining about WoW actually played it extensively. It's like logging in right after a content patch or expansion and complaining the towns are crowded or a new mount is added that blows over in a few days.

The funny thing is that this is the image that people have about jumping in WoW. (^_^ ) In reality it's not the majority of the players that jump non-stop. Only a handful at best.

I started playing WoW about six months after its release, and playing off and on until Cataclysm, so I'm fairly familiar with the game. While the jumping isn't quite as bad as indicated, it is bad enough to be annoying at times. Dalaran was especially bad once they introduced the mammoth and sparkle pony mounts.

[Raistlin]

I'm actually all for there being actual differences between the different races. Perhaps if there were some actual benefits and drawbacks to the choices, we wouldn't have the legion of catgirls running around.

If there are so many catgirls is just coz that race is cool and people like seeing them. if u make hyur to jump highter than lalafell, they can surpass obstacles that others cant, and that is totally unacceptable. they will never benefit a race against other one, so for that reason, forget to see a cool and perfect jump for everybody. someone will jump too low or someone will jump too high, but all races will have the same posibilities.

And that will be totally uncool:

- A Hyur jumping enough high to surpass an obstacle, but the game will not alow him coz visual jump dont fit real jump height
- A Hyur jumping so low that seems.. stupid coz i can jump highter and i am not a Hero.
- A lalafell jumping low but your character allow to surpass a obstacle and your character "cross" through it.
- A lalafell jumping so high that it would seem unrealistic or uncool.

is a hard decision, and not everyone will be happy.